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Pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies across Europe may be off the hook for the largest share of a continent-wide water cleanup effort, after a legal adviser to the EU's top court recommended striking down the rule that assigned them the bill.
That rule is an EU directive, a binding legal instruction that member states must write into their national laws by a set date.
The recommendation is an early reprieve for industries facing both a hard compliance deadline and a substantial collective cost.
What the directive required The directive revised an earlier version of the same rules and came into force early last year.
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